UPDATE: Trail accident proves fatal
A woman has died after a being struck by a car on Dec. 9 in Trail, according to RCMP Sgt. John Ferguson, whose press release reads as follows: On Dec. 9 at approximately 7:13 p.m., Trail RCMP and the West Kootenay Traffic Services were dispatched to a single motor vehicle crash involving an automobile and two pedestrians on...
The Year-End Blues
“What rough beast … slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?” -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming “Americans still heralded the Enlightenment’s entry into history precisely because they’d all been uprooted from their several soils and ancestries and plunged together into one vortex, whirling irresistible in a space otherwise quite...
Broadband to 'light up' downtown Trail in time for the holidays
Business-grade fibre broadband is ready to be lit-up in downtown Trail just in time for Christmas. Columbia Networks will be the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) to provide services on the new open access network. Initial business offerings include connectivity up to 100Mbps (upload and download), email, offsite data...
LETTER: Transparency vs. Secrecy of closed Meetings of School Board
Once again a visit to a school board meeting on Dec. 9… The new board is in place with only two newly elected trustees and five in by acclamation. In other words five with experience. It is a beautiful remodelled conference room where the board meets. Quite a change from the old days, and a good change. I might go to more...
National Day of Remembrance provides opportunity for community dialogue on domestic violence
On Dec. 6 from 10 a.m. until noon, over 25 men, women and children gathered in Grand Forks for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, informally known as White Ribbon Day. The Boundary Women’s Resource Centre Program Manager Teresa Taylor organized the event, with help from transition house staff...
Nelson's Ross Steed turns to fundraising to help in his fight against chronic Lyme disease
The family of a 55-year-old Nelson man has taken to a fundraising website to raise money to help in the fight against chronic Lyme disease. For the past five years, Ross Steed has endured a level of pain and discomfort on a day-to-day basis that is beyond what most people could ever imagine. However, chronic Lyme disease is...
Kimberley Mountie releases elk; no charges pending
On Dec. 10, a Kimberley RCMP officer assisted an elk after she became entwined in a wire fence. Police were alerted to an elk in distress off Highway 95A east of Kimberley around 11:00 am. Sgt Darrell Robinson immediately attended and found a cow elk laying on her back with two legs caught in the wire. He was able to approach...
CITY PUBLIC NOTICE V – RE CUPE STRIKE
The City wishes to advise Castlegar residents that City facilities remain open and City non-union staff will endeavor to provide prompt service to residents, businesses and visitors during the current labour strike. Your understanding and patience is appreciated. What’s Going On? The City has bargained in good faith for over...
RELEASE: City workers target mayor and council for inaction on talks
City workers, members of CUPE Local 2262, are holding a noon hour rally today outside city hall. The event is a show of support from other unions and the community for the workers who have been on the picket line for more than a month. CUPE Local 2262 president Leford Lafayette says it’s difficult to convey what the support...
How to stop making your English "ugly and inaccurate"--in case you were wondering!
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have...
